“Not our money, we have to get it back to the rightful owner,” Stiles said. He says he’s always believed in being completely honest all the time.

The fourth stop was in the heart of East Liberty on Penn Avenue. Griffin couldn’t get 10 steps away before Todd Levine was yelling and pointing to the wallet.

“I didn’t want anybody to pick your wallet up,” he said.

Stop No. 5 was downtown. Twice when we dropped the wallet, honest strangers immediately returned it both times.

Halfway through our test, everyone came out honest. However, that’s not normal. In a worldwide honesty test conducted the same way, the most honest city – Helsinki, Finland – had a less-than-perfect score with 11 out of 12 wallets being returned.

The most dishonest cities including Madrid, Spain and Lisbon, Portugal, had only two out of 12 and one out of 12 wallets returned, respectively.

“Pittsburgh for example, have very common values,” said Dr. Paul Friday.

Friday says there are lots of reasons why people are honest or dishonest, but he believes Pittsburghers have a certain hometown advantage.

“If you want to see a pocket of honesty, welcome to Southwest Pa.,” he says, “because we’re that kind of people.”

It’s hard to argue with him. On the campus of Washington and Jefferson University, we placed the wallet on a sidewalk. Student Jessica Nickerson missed a class and walked all the way across campus to turn it into Campus Police.

When asked why be that honest, Nickerson said, “Well, pay it forward and good things will happen to you in the long run.”

We got the same results again when we dropped a wallet at a truck stop in Eighty Four and again in Beaver.

Looking for some inside juice? Marty Griffin is your man. Born and raised in Shadyside, a graduate of Ohio University and road-tested in Texas, Marty is here to stir things up in his hometown. Marty is also one of the KDKA-TV Investigators. He...